Intel has developed a password manager app that can log you in your accounts by using your face too. Honestly I think this presents a security risk if someone tries to mimic your facial characteristics to steal you data.
"Bitcoin Uncovered" is pretty much a spot-on domain name for your website if you want to develop it as an information portal for newbies. Good luck in your venture.
Gamers usually have powerful GPUs and CPUs capable of mining Bitcoins and now altcoins and are computer-literate so they would know what Bitcoin is and where to use it most of the time and in that regard I think Valve are making the right decision to add it to the payment options on Steam.
The crucial first step is to prevent any criminal activities to be associated with Bitcoin. If we can stop this bad publicity I think Bitcoin price will take off faster than usual and the mass adoption will be greater.
The miners will mine whatever makes them the most profit I guess. I think it's a bad idea to rely on banks to get loans for buying mining equipment because it could turn out it won't make enough money to even break even and they could end up in debt easily instead.
If you can find the IP address then why do all the criminals prefer to extort bitcoins from the victims? Because they can conceal their tracks and appear to be based in a whole different country.
I usually only have time to check the news if there is any on this forum. If there is really big news though I go to the source link to read more about there.
Just to make sure. From your website I gather that to get a virtual debit card it costs $0.50 then the maintenance fee every month is $1? So this free $0.50 card will be excluded from these fees right? Because it will go into negative balance
Price $0.50/€0.50/£0.50 Monthly service charge fee $1.00/€1.00/£1.00
And now it seems that the Feds got track of the hacker who didi this and already arrested him. Unfortunately, it's well deserved because this sort of situations are the ones who give bitcoin a bad name.
Where did you read about this? Can you provide a link to the story?
Wouldn't they need to show ID when trying to convert the bitcoins to cash through the exchanges? Or services like Localbitcoins are preferred with no paper trail left behind.
It's not Bitcoin's fault people use it for malicious reasons but the inherent features of it make it possible to be used successfully in scams and extortions. It's not in danger if the gov wants to regulate it I think.